Travel Blogs from Pakistan

Those of you who have met me on the road will know that I was considering/planning to return to Europe by land via Iran.
I had applied through an online agency (www.iranianvisa.com) they seemed optimistic at first, then it all slowed down then they ...

... had threatened that the place that I would be visiting, Faisalabad, to watch a cricket test was known as "The Manchester of Pakistan". Why any place would want to liken itself to Manchester is beyond me, that any place would be unfortunate enough to be ...

... lead down to the minibus station once again, as we wanted to go to the Kalash Valley. Home of the only non-muslim people in Pakistan. Jumped into one pretty quickly, and we were off. Eventually, the driver dumped us at the last stop, and we set off ...

... ll see in the pictures all the amazingosity that is the Indian uniform and crazy high kicking. Let me just mention Pakistan. We were a little far away from them, but I espied some things. Mostly they did the same thing, ...

... talks to us on his aims to set up a country, Balawaristan, as a solution to the regional land ownership disputed between Pakistan and India.
A wonderful contrast of looking at something then occurs. Martine, who is a Social Worker, says how nice that ...

... Turkman's place for dinner. He had some more Afghani friends, one who was called Abdul Qadir !!! I asked if he had played for Pakistan, he just laughed and said that he was a better bowler !!! Over dinner, the talk was cricket. In fact, we talked nothing ...

Once again, we were on a mission. This time to Islamabad to pick up our passports with the Indian visas attached. Then onto Lahore and to the border as India was calling us. Up early, and grabbed a taxi to take us back to our hotel. We hung out doing ...

... I'm fearful I'll clog the machine with mud when I wash them. If - and that's a mighty big if - I do come back to Pakistan I think I'll avoid the cities and head north to the Himalayas with my newly adoptive mother for the clean air.
After two overseas ...

Thomas:
We spent a short time in Pakistan but it deserves a full entry here, not only the few lines we throw in the last time.
Entering overland from China means travelling the Karakorum highway, an adventure itself. Karakorum means 'crumbling rock' ...

I was up before the dawn. There was about an hour and half's light before the sun reached camp. The shadows shrinking down the wall of mountains opposite were moving fast enough to watch. A few wispy clouds huddled round the tops of the mountains to the ...

When I shut my eyes I could see piles of camel dung or maybe strewn rocks on a floor of sand. This irregular polka-dot pattern was imprinted on the inside of my eyeballs in the same way that a tune becomes an earworm. Akbar claimed the group would return ...

25 Dec 80 Returned by bus to Gilgit from Skardu. Couldn't get flight out for several days because of weather so took 14 hour bus trip back to Rawalpindi. And immediately got on bus to Lahore, I think. What a way to celebrate Christmas ...

Lahore is on the east side of Pakistan, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. I instantly liked the city and it had a nice vibe about it. I visited Lahore Fort which was built, damaged, ...

... found it so hard to decide which ones, in the end It was quicker to just upload them all.
Before actually entering Pakistan I was having alot of trouble with getting my visa (as I applied in Chengdu, where I was caught in the earthquake. ...

... craaazzzyy crazy bloody English!" He then told us some stories about an English guy he climbed Everest with before until a guy from Pakistan asked where Serbia was on the map, and was then intrigued about why is said Serbia and Montenegro, we then got a ...

... grabbed a couple and threw them over, and then clocked a few on the back with his bamboo cane. Welcome to crowd control, Pakistan-style. I was then ushered through to the stand and took my seat with the other English fans.
We were kept separated from ...

... 2003 - 20th December 2003)
Ah smashing!
As the huge and ridiculously over loaded 'bus' from Iran set off for Pakistan, passengers were doused in a mysterious petrol type liquid. There was panic as the driver climbed over and sampled it before safely ...

The whole campsite was white. The camel herders disappeared early to lug supplies from wherever the King's Advanced Troupe were, to wherever they were going next, if indeed, they were going anywhere in the whiteout. I was confused as to where the camel ...

... my safety...or at least minimize the risks. If I did manage to get a visa, I would also need another visa to re-enter Pakistan which I was told could take up to a week.
The Embassy in Islamabad would not issue me a visa without a letter of invitation ...

The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group of the Hindu Kush, settling in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalash language, a member of the Dardic family.
There is some controversy over what defines the ethnic ...